US 11,937,764 B2
Cleaning device having vacuum cleaner and docking station
Seehyun Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Youngchul Ko, Suwon-si (KR); Higon Koo, Suwon-si (KR); Kisup Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Hyunho Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Seungryong Cha, Suwon-si (KR); Seungwoo Choi, Suwon-si (KR); Kihwan Kwon, Suwon-si (KR); Hyeoncheol Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Hwagyu Song, Suwon-si (KR); Sungcheol Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Hyunju Lee, Suwon-si (KR); and Ingyu Choi, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/388,477.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0098952 (KR), filed on Aug. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0039622 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A47L 9/14 (2006.01); A47L 9/28 (2006.01); B01D 46/00 (2022.01)
CPC A47L 9/149 (2013.01) [A47L 9/1409 (2013.01); A47L 9/2873 (2013.01); B01D 46/0036 (2013.01); B01D 46/0038 (2013.01); B01D 46/0043 (2013.01); B01D 2273/30 (2013.01); B01D 2279/55 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaning device comprising:
a vacuum cleaner including a dust collector into which an object is collected;
a docking station having a long axis which extends in a vertical direction of the docking station,
wherein the docking station comprises:
a docking part configured to allow the dust collector to be docked to the docking part,
a sucking device to suck the object and air from an inside of the dust collector while the dust collector is docked to the docking part,
a collecting part arranged between the docking part and the sucking device along the long axis to collect the object which is sucked by the sucking device, and
a circulation duct having a first end connectable to the docking part and a second end connectable to the sucking device so that the air from the inside of the dust collector sucked by the sucking device flows downward along the long axis into the sucking device through the collecting part and flows upward into the docking part through the circulation duct, and the air flowed upward into the docking part through the circulation duct is to be moved into the collecting part.